WALKING out of this stop-art toon, you wonder how much the big-name voice cast were paid to stand in Hollywood sound booths to, quite literally, phone in their parts.

Presumably Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg topped up their credits to the tune of thousands but you, on the other hand, are best advised to hang up on this week’s second-most excruciating film after Pride.

This kids flick, based on the novel Here Be Monsters, imagines a cheese-adoring civilisation terrified of trolls living under their feet. It takes an underworld rebel to bring about change in their society.